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  • 1&1: The Worst Hosting Company In The World?

    1&1: The Worst Hosting Company In The World?Phew … A huge sigh of relief.

    After having suffered under a truly appalling service from the travesty that they call 1&1, we have successfully moved hosting company to Exonetric.

    Exonetric are the exact opposite of leviathan 1&1, a small, dedicated team of knowledgeable people who are keen to help out.

    The service we experienced with 1&1 is, with no exaggeration, the worst we have ever come across in over 20+ years of experience. They’re driven by answering your query as quickly as they can, without bothering to read what the query was in the first place.
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  • OFT Look Into Sky Buying Amstrad

    OFT Inquiry Into Sky Buying AmstradThe UK Office of Fair Trading has issued an Invitation to Comment on the proposed deal of Amstrad being bought by Sky.

    The OFT does this when they thing that the deal needs to be looked at and is the first stage of possibly taking it further.

    We’re sure that this will be welcomed by the various other companies that currently provide Sky with digiboxes around the world, and potentially by other too.

    If you want to leave a comment, details can be found on the OFT site.

  • Solwise HomePlug AV Price Drop & Certification

    Solwise HomePlug AV Price Drop & CertificationIt’s been a busy time for Solwise of late. Near the start of this week their high-speed HomePlug, the AV 200Mbps / PL-200AV, passed the HomePlug AV certification testing at the recent PlugFest in France, giving them the right to display the “HomePlug AV Certified” logo.
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  • Virgin Media lose 40k Subs But Changes Ahoy

    Virgin Media lose 40k Subs: Changes AhoyThe latest results results from Virgin Media, Q2 2007, show that they’ve lost 40,000 cable TV subscribers. The most likely reasons – the loss of Sky TV programming, following their spat with Sky. To rub salt into the wounds, Sky gain 90,000 TV customer over the same period.
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  • Vodafone Keeps Verizon Wireless Options

    Vodafone Keeps Verizon Wireless
    Early this morning, Vodafone released news that it had decided not to exercise it’s Put option to sell its $10Bn interest in Verizon Wireless to Verizon Communications.

    This is the fifth and last year that they had to exercise this option after Verizon Wireless was formed in 2002 when Verizon Communications and Vodafone decided to pool their US operations.

    Vodafone Chief Executive, Arun Sarin, recently said that he thought the currently value of the shared they hold to be $15 billion.

    It’s understood that Verizon won’t be particularly happy about this, as they’re keen to get their hand on the whole venture.

  • Pace Win Extra Sky Business

    Pace Win Extra Sky BusinessGood to hear that Pace Micro, veteran UK supplies of technology, have signed another deal to supply Sky with Set Top Boxes.

    Pace tell us that in their latest round of contract awards from Sky, Pace has won additional Digibox business for the 2007 financial year.
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  • BT Offer Local Numbers for VoIP

    BT Offer Local Numbers for VoIPBT are to offer those who sign up for their Business Broadband Voice service – VoIP to you and me – an option of having a local phone number connected to it. At a charge, naturally.

    BT is calling the service “Geographic Numbers”, ie what you’d normally have if you had a landline phone line from them.
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  • iPlayer: BBC To Enter Computer Games Market?

    BBC To Enter Computer Games Market?The BBC is set to unveil a “significant” move into the videogames market, according to a report in The Scotsman.

    The Corporation – still smarting from the humiliation of being caught out ripping off viewers taking part in TV phone-ins – is expected to unveil their new gaming strategy next week at the Edinburgh Interactive Festival.
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  • Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic Freakshows

    Retouching Service Turns Pageant Children Into Plastic FreakshowsWe’ve seen some mighty weird things on the Internet over the years, but this American- based Profes- sional Pageant Photo retouching site easily has to be one of the spookiest things to appear on our screens for a long time.
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  • How To Kill A Joke With TTS

    How To Kill A Joke With TTSText to Speech (TTS) processing has come on leaps and bounds from the early days of jerky, rough renditions of robotic-type chatter yesteryear.

    A lot of the quality is truly amazing – very life like – but it appears that some systems still really doesn’t know how to deal with jokes.

    Just now a friend (I assume) sent me an SMS joke, but sadly they misdirected it to my landline, not the mobile.

    BT have a service in the UK where text messages can be sent to landlines and read out over the phone.

    So you all have the joy of listening to the joke, I recorded it, just so you can enjoy the flat humour of it.

    I found it took a couple of times of listening to it to actually understand what the joke was!

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